More Eric Schwab

Know His Habits

 

Chinatown
Roman Polanski
1974

Seem to Crave

                   
Since i looked in your direction
         Your tenderness is all i seem to crave
    But when i look for your affection
                You smile, my dear, and tell me to behave

Don't Make a Beggar of Me
(Sherman)

Frank Sinatra

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Romy Schneider
Hans Jurgen Syberberg

Shadows of the Jukebox #12

Out of the Fog

Blood Simple

Detour

Anatomy of a Murder

Mystic River

Touch of Evil

Desire and Hell at the Sunset Motel

Pushover

Sopranos

Asphalt Jungle

Low Down

Wild One

But a Reality

                                Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.

Soren Kierkegaard

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The Urban Labyrinth

 

         At the heart of  Night and the City is a master trope ; the urban labyrinth. Cities in film noir are not simply dangerous or bristling with iconographic menace - they are visualized as death traps, spaces from which there can be no escape. The common pattern finds summary expression in Dassin's film. Nearly every setting is crammed with architectural grids, frames, cul-de-sacs, narrow stairways, perspectives that choke off the mobility and freedom of human subjects.

In the Labyrinth
Paul Arthur
2015
Criterion.com

              https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/355-night-and-the-city-in-the-labyrinth?     srsltid=AfmBOoqzpUuVLRwYNKaXDWKugI5e0APPgv_AYGCFc-x5Nj882wYCQ1A7

All Rigged

   Maybe it's just the whole damn world is like central casting. They got it all rigged before you ever show up.

They Shoot Horses Don't They
Sydney Pollack
1969

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They Shoot Horses Don't They
Horace McCoy - 1935

Downpour of Shadows #30

Dead Reckoning

Carny

End of the Affair (1955)

Fight Club

Fallen Angel

Last Wave

Flamingo Road

Munich

The Housemaid (1960)

Nightmare Alley

Ministry of Fear

Three Days of the Condor

Une Si Jolie Petite Plage

Last Seduction

Odds Against Tomorrow

The Square (2008)

Shoot the Piano Player

Where I Was Going

When that Greyhound rolled into town

I didn't have any idea where i was going

The streets were deserted and i booked a room

across from the depot

Her final words still echoing

in my head

"You won't make it in this world"

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Easypeasy AI

The Set Up

The Set Up
Robert Wise
1949

Like the Town

             Their faces were foreign like the town ; brown Mexican faces, and their voices, unaccompanied, were like a heaven choir. He didn't care about that. He hadn't come here to pray ; he'd come to keep his eye on a rat. He wasn't going to be sucked in by holiness.

Ride the Pink Horse
Dorothy B Hughes
1946